Hello all! For those of you who saw my Instagram videos this weekend, you will know that I had a pretty fun baking adventure Sunday night. For the first time in a while, I wasn’t making my own recipe, but instead just testing someone else’s. Anyways, the recipe was for cheesecake brownies and as you can see, they turned out really well! I couldn’t have been more pleased and I will definitely be making this recipe again. Plus, now that I’ve had some taste testers, I have some ideas on how to tweak this recipe next time. Also, there are still a bunch of these left so go check out Lefty Baking Life if you want some of your own!

Ingredients:

Cheesecake:

8 oz softened cream cheese

1/2 cup sugar

1 egg

1 cup white chocolate chips

Brownies:

1/2 cup butter

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

pinch of salt

2/3 cup flour

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350 F, line an 8 x 8 pan with parchment paper.

Melt the butter and semi-sweet chocolate in a saucepan on medium heat, stirring constantly until they are fully combined.

In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, cocoa powder, and salt. Set aside.

In a large bowl, whisk the eggs and sugar together and then add melted chocolate mixture. Mix until everything is evenly combined. Then, gradually add dry ingredients, mixing until combined. Make sure not to over mix. Set this aside

For the cheesecake layer, melt the white chocolate chips in the microwave in 20 second increments, stirring after each, until melted…1 to 2 minutes.

In a bowl, mix cream cheese, sugar, and egg. Beat until smooth. Then, stir in the melted white chocolate and mix until well combined.

Pour half of the brownie batter into the pan. Then, dollop spoonfuls of the cheesecake mixture on top and spread in out into a thin layer. Make sure you get into the corners too. Then spread the remaining brownie batter on top. Swirl with a knife through the layers so you get fun stripes when you cut it.

Bake about 25-35 minutes depending on your oven. Make sure that when you stick a toothpick through the center, it comes out with crumbs, but not liquid batter. Allow it to cool completely before cutting and then enjoy!

Let me know what you think of these goodies if you end up trying them yourself. Until next time…